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bavlondon wrote:Rafa should pull him from that friendly. It makes no sense at all to let him go there.

GRAHAM01 wrote:

stmichael wrote:wouldn't start him on thursday. i'd have him on the bench incase we need him and give him 20 minutes again.

let him off the leash against blackburn.

i hope he is starting at blackburn mic, i got me tickets and can't wait

really looking forward to seeing him back out there on the pitch and hoping for a good game and some goals as they seem to have dried up a lot of late

bunglemark2 wrote:Can't see Rafa playing him from the start. He's way too conservative for that...

GRAHAM01 wrote:

bunglemark2 wrote:Can't see Rafa playing him from the start. He's way too conservative for that...

i would like to think rafa knows he has to play but we will wait and see, i'm waiting to see what he plays on thur to see if he starts on sun really hope he does we need him back as without him we are lame ducks

Rush Job wrote:

GRAHAM01 wrote:

bunglemark2 wrote:Can't see Rafa playing him from the start. He's way too conservative for that...

i would like to think rafa knows he has to play but we will wait and see, i'm waiting to see what he plays on thur to see if he starts on sun really hope he does we need him back as without him we are lame ducks

He`ll get some minutes tomorra and will deffinitely start against rovers, I`ll be shocked if he doesnt.

GRAHAM01 wrote:

bavlondon wrote:Rafa should pull him from that friendly. It makes no sense at all to let him go there.

no way he should be playing in a friendly for them bav no fecking way

if rafa started him for tonight and saturday then we have no excuses for the Spain coach not to...

we'll see on the weeknd, but this may be another example of  machievelian scheming from the goatee-wearing iberian porker 

DrPepe wrote:

GRAHAM01 wrote:

bavlondon wrote:Rafa should pull him from that friendly. It makes no sense at all to let him go there.

no way he should be playing in a friendly for them bav no fecking way

if rafa started him for tonight and saturday then we have no excuses for the Spain coach not to...

we'll see on the weeknd, but this may be another example of  machievelian scheming from the goatee-wearing iberian porker 

Owzat wrote:

GRAHAM01 wrote:would still like him to start on sunday, the pitch was cr*p last night so maybe rafa kept him off because of that or maybe he just didn't want them kicking lumps out of him as well

get a good hour under you belt on sunday lad and a nice brace to go with it

I'd keep him in reserve, maybe give him 30 minutes on Sunday as a run out. Reason being it's BLACKBURN at home and they've won only once on the road in the Premiership all season. And Nando might be tired from the flight and sitting on the edge of his seat on the bench itching to get on and put a hat-trick past the Romanians as a SUPERsub

EDIT : I think I heard mention that Rafa may not use him on Sunday at all, see if he dons a white bib. The danger to not using him might be that Spain see him as rested, perhaps come on for 10 mins on Sunday and "limp" off

i heard he is on the treatment bench getting the splinters removed....

no mate IF he is fit enough he should start, tell spain to go fecking take a running jump

i know blackburn have only won 1 away from home and that is why we should go straight at them from the off if we got an early goal there heads would be thinking fecking hell here we go again and the confidence the players would get from a good prem result wouldn't harm the lads at all

GRAHAM01 wrote:

Owzat wrote:

GRAHAM01 wrote:would still like him to start on sunday, the pitch was cr*p last night so maybe rafa kept him off because of that or maybe he just didn't want them kicking lumps out of him as well

get a good hour under you belt on sunday lad and a nice brace to go with it

I'd keep him in reserve, maybe give him 30 minutes on Sunday as a run out. Reason being it's BLACKBURN at home and they've won only once on the road in the Premiership all season. And Nando might be tired from the flight and sitting on the edge of his seat on the bench itching to get on and put a hat-trick past the Romanians as a SUPERsub

EDIT : I think I heard mention that Rafa may not use him on Sunday at all, see if he dons a white bib. The danger to not using him might be that Spain see him as rested, perhaps come on for 10 mins on Sunday and "limp" off

i heard he is on the treatment bench getting the splinters removed....

no mate IF he is fit enough he should start, tell spain to go fecking take a running jump

i know blackburn have only won 1 away from home and that is why we should go straight at them from the off if we got an early goal there heads would be thinking fecking hell here we go again and the confidence the players would get from a good prem result wouldn't harm the lads at all

Waldo wrote:What was the point in taking him all the way to Romania and back when Rafa clearly had NO intention of playing.

All good and well saying he is back in the fold, wants to be back amongst his team mates etc but surely he would have been better training/resting up in Liverpool and preparing himself for the weekends game...

and if we'd gone 2-0 behind and torres was sat in liverpool? 

everything went according to   plan so he wasn't required - is that so strange?